Opinion – Page 316
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CommentIs the CSR the first step to dismantling social housing?
We know funding for housing has been savaged, but how will the money that is available be allocated and what direct effect that will it have on the number of homes built?
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CommentRICS on the Spending Review
RICS director of external affairs comments on the controversial government announcement
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CommentSpending Review: Industry reaction
Find out what the construction industry thinks of George Osborne’s Spending Review
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Comment£10 billion less public cash for capital spending in second half of this financial year
New figures on public sector finances suggest that capital spending is already being squeezed
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CommentLive blog: Spending Review 2010
George Osborne’s announcement on spending cuts has taken place. Read the highlights on our blog
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'It will be a sombre return to market': Dan Labbad on the spending review
Lend Lease regional CEO says the property industry won’t be able to rely on ’silver bullet’ sectors for growth in the near future
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CommentHalving housing spend? We'll be lucky
Sources suggest tomorrow’s spending review will be accompanied by a radical review of how affordable housing is paid for, with central funding cut by anything up to 80%
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CommentFeeling the squeeze in Abu Dhabi
Mega-projects are still on track but consultants out here are seeing margins decline as competition becomes fierce
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CommentPodcast: Economists predict the spending cuts
Listen to our panel of experts discuss the chancellor’s planned cuts and the possible impact on construction
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CommentComprehensive Spending Review: Brace yourself for bad news
Kier topped our monthly business barometer chart thanks to contracts worth £160m. This time last year it was also in the lead, but then its haul was £660m
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CommentConstruction in Cairo: Scaling the stone towers
The construction industry in Cairo has tended to stick to concrete buildings of a similar form and size, says Paul Scott. Now this seems to be changing in interesting ways …
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CommentHansom: Strange days indeed
Nothing is as it seems this week, what with resurrected chief executives turning up at race courses, bestiality taking place in the workplace and well-known architects running away to sea
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Rudi was right ...
The penultimate paragraph of Stuart Pemble’s article “Have I really been negligent?” (8 October, page 73) leads me to the view that he is wrong and Rudi Klein is, as usual, right
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Was Rudi right?
Every now and then Rudi Klein makes a worthwhile and original point, but his article “You’ve been warned” (17 September 2010, page 57) is not such an occasion.
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Disarming deathtraps
Jennifer Deeney’s tragic story makes sobering reading, as does Tony Bingham’s article on the wall collapse (1 October). They emphasise the fact that freestanding walls can be deathtraps.
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Belfast's new troubles
Regarding the planned spending cuts in Northern Ireland, if ministers would get some sort of PPP in place to fill the public sector funding void, privatise water and other public bodies and sort out the planning system, the cuts would not be so severe
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CommentNot-so-smooth landing
Thanks to John Potter for this photo taken in Cheltenham. “At least the spiked railings will stop them hitting the ground!” he comments pointedly
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CommentQuentin Shears: Thinking inside the box
I’ve never been entirely sure what management consultancy is. My only hope was that nobody else knew either
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CommentHas CITB been saved from privatisation?
Francis Maude’s non-committal announcement could spell good news for the body